and I just stumbled across it by accident - its in the back and basement of a 2nd hand clothes shop on Lower Marsh in waterloo and I almost fainted at the VAST VAST VAST arrays and boxes rammed with vinyl from the last 50 years, all collected by label or genre and all in boxes all over the place - its run by a bloke you'd imagine running a market stall so no holier than thou nonsense - Disers like Bobby Grindrod would have wept if they were there - I blew 15 notes on two rare Joe Meek productions and got shown a 'holy grail' of Meek recordings - oh dear I was excited.
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did you leave a patch on the floor?
i may have been to this
is the basement massive with fake cctv cameras and stuff?
...
That sounds crap. Go to HMV in Oxford Street. They have CDs. Thousands of them.
yeah and posters
of homer simpson smokin a joint
bill clinton smokin a joint
even
maggie simpson smokin a joint
lovely stuff
just burst out laughing
its just higgledy piggledy boxes in a back room
and when they could see I knew 'a bit' abotu vinyl I was taken to the cellar - the owner said he had two lock ups full of vinyl - it must be like Peel Acres x 14 but without all the shit belgian techno he used to play to try and stay trendy.
TAKE ME TO YOUR DEALER
nothing wrong with shit belgian techno.
*nothing wrong with belgian techno
its just the shit stuff u need to steer clear of
nope that isn't what I said.
"AND THERE WERE THOUSANDS"
"THIS ISN'T SOME KIND OF METAPHOR"
GODDAM THIS IS REAL lol
I'm going to see them
later this year apparently
i just started working there
yes. and i was very surprised how extensive and varied their cd collection is.
they have the monks and shit & shine in their recommended section!
weird.
Nope - it's in Manchester:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorenzo23/2291507555/
I managed to find a copy of Deniece Williams' 'Let's Hear It For The Boy' in there for 25p. Once I'd waded through loads of terrible porn, that is.
It's in manchester!
Finally, Manchester turns out good for something! What's it called?
oh right I've walked past that.
I just thought it was an abandoned porno/Cd store
Well, it more or less is!
^this
lets give the boy a hand
is that the place on
withington road?
Nope
are you talking about Record Shack?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/livhouse/390345594/
I've never been there, I'm not sure if it's even still open.
oh yeah i was
its still there i think. tho last time i went in, every time i asked a question the guy just shrugged and turned away.
WOW!
Last summer I stayed in the really big posh-ish building opposite that.
that's not really very exciting at all
but it is for me
all vinyl?
think I've been there, it's great, especially for classical vinyl
although I think it's a dedicated record shop I'm thinking of. Anyway, Lower Marsh is generally brilliant.
no that's 'gramex' I think the classical music one
its below a clothes shop and it has an ad in the windoe for '50s memorabilia'
its mostly seven inches and albums - saw a pristine copy of the first Stones album as well as Junkyard by the BIrthday Party - there was just stuff EVERYWHERE - I especially wept at the Decca section and London Records - brilliant brilliant brilliant
I know the one you mean, it's a few doors along from 'Radio Days'
I bought some clothes in there once, but never knew about the records. Must revisit.
its on the left coming from Waterloo
and is opposite Coral Bay cafe - I only work round the corner so Im going to be there every lunch time like a salivating child. Oh dear.
brilliant
I used to live near there, was the best place I've ever lived in London. Lower Marsh is a little town in itself.
Is it the one
thedailygrowl mentions in this thread?
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3516960
Anything 'new'?
(I don't mean that sarcastically by the way, genuine question. It sounds lovely but in all honesty as much as I love flicking through vinyl I'd be getting slightly bored after an hour of finding nothing but Buddy Holly and Freddie & The Dreamers records).
What like Foals and MGMT?
I saw a Fall album from 1989 and a Shakey single as well as Urban Hymns for 50p - think it goes up to the 80s but the majority looks 50s/60s - the main stuff is in the basement. I picked up a single to possibly buy and he said '200 for that mate', which impressed me for some reason.
Yeah mate, this is lovely but...got any Maroon 5?
You know what I mean. I'm not one for musical history. Although we could all do with another copy of Urban Hymns.
Your coaster set isn't complete?
I play a middle-class game called Verve Clique Oh.
It involves inviting people around for a posh dinner party and champagne tasting, and then putting Urban Hymns on. If they say 'I love this album!' then I slit their throat using the CD, whilst muttering a sacred Indian-style chant of 'A Storm In Heaven Is Much Better, A Storm In Heaven Is Much Better...'
Then we put A Storm In Heaven on and dance around the corpse pretending to be Richard Ashcroft. The 'Oh' in the games title is derived from the noise made by the other people I've invited to the party who weren't aware of what was going to happen.
then you put 'Moon Safari' on, right?
chill out after the party games yeah
:D :D
haha
i've just spilt boiling coffee down my shins
:D Amazing.
I can't believe I missed this for 43 minutes!
that's BAMOS GOLD right there
Urban Quims, I'm sure I've seen a programme called that on late night "TV"
name of shop? number of shop?
precise googlemap directions from my house to this shop please and thanks?
I thought Dummy was the album for getting soft ons to when trying desperately to penetrate your tir
Or am I think Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Water?
bf
what are the meek singles. The two you bought and the 'holy grail'?
And the 'that's 200 notes mate' one
The answer to this question will help me decide whether it's worth going and spaffing money
YOU'RE BACK!!!!
the 200 quid one was a cryin' Shames single I hadn't heard of - it was Please Stay which I've got
and bizarrely Duffy has done a version of - the single I got was a flee-rekkers song written by Geoff Goddard on Picadilly and Angela Jones by Micheal Cox on Triumph.
God I'm dull
sorry - it 'wasn't Please Stay
it was one of their later flops
why!
poor song.
bf
I'm guessing it was 'september in the rain/come on back'...the flip is a slightly overrated freakbeat track.
£200 isn't a great price to be fair, but I might still go and check it out. These old school types often let things slip through their fingers cos they don't 'do' prog or whatever ;)
That may vewwy well be the case
but we got about 6 brilliant record shops within 10mins of each other, none of them a HMV or Zavvi
there used to be some good second hand record shops in Liverpool
but the people who ran them were really rude. I just said that appropos on nothing, just for a change
I have to play those records now
as I hate the idea of 'collectors' who don't actually play what they buy. Had some funny looks at work just for having a 'single' on my desk, like I'd just rode a penny farthing into the office.
Welcome to my world.
cheers for this
i just went on my (very late) lunch-break. there are thousands of old vinyl in there but they're still sorting them into some sort of order though.
the chap who works there is super-friendly. had a nice chat, got shown the basement with all the boxes and given a free nick cave promo poster from the 80s! :D
will be spending most lunchtimes there.